Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Critical Interpretations S.) (Modern Library) (Picador Books)

by E. L. Doctorow

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy...Read more
  • ISBN10 0812978188
  • ISBN13 9780812978186
  • Publish Date 8 May 2007 (first published December 1976)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc